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The delight and surprise we feel after spotting a double rainbow arcing across the sky almost never wears off.
So imagine photographer Ben Gwynne's shock while he photographed Sunday's supermoon — and turned around to see a double moonbow.
Below is Gwynne's photo of the relatively rare phenomenon, which he first posted about on Facebook (and we first saw at the BBC).
The UK-based professional photographer snapped this image over a field in northern England at 7:38 p.read more

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